Building a virtual summer research experience in cancer for high school and early undergraduate students: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic posed a unique challenge for summer research programs in 2020, particularly for programs aimed at hands-on experience for younger trainees. The Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center supports two pipeline programs, which traditionally immerse high school juniors, seniors, and early undergraduate students from underrepresented populations in science in hands-on projects in cancer biology labs. However, due to social distancing policies during the pandemic and reduction of research operations, these students were not physically allowed on campus. Thus, the authors set out to strategically pivot to a wholly virtual curriculum and evaluate the Virtual Summer Research Experience in Cancer outcomes.

Methods

The virtual

SUBMITTER: Corson TW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8350276 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature